German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a news conference flanked by Edmund Stoiber (R) leader of Bavaria's Christian Social Union party (CSU) and Social Democratic party (SPD) leader Kurt Beck (L) in Berlin July 4, 2006. Merkel's ruling coalition got a big thumbs down in Germany on Tuesday as the country poured scorn on the government's plan to reform the costly national healthcare system. The overhaul, which had been seen as one of the key reform challenges for Merkel's government, left Germans unimpressed and opened splits in the coalition of conservatives (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD). REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY)